Screen-Time Limits: The American Academy of Pediatrics said yesterday that time spent in front of the television and other video displays provides no educational benefits for small children, the New York Times reports. The doctors’ group recommended parents restrict screen time for babies and toddlers but didn’t go as far as it did in 1999, when it said kids under two should have virtually no exposure to video screens, the paper says.

Partial Protection: Interim results published in the New England Journal of Medicine show an experimental malaria vaccine reduced by about half the chances of getting malaria in children aged five months to 17 months, the WSJ reports. Results in younger children weren’t as good. More data are needed before the vaccine — funded in part by Bill Gates — can be deemed a success.

More Cantaloupe Deaths: The number of deaths linked to listeria-tainted cantaloupes grown in Colorado has reached 25, CNN reports. According to the CDC, 123 people have now fallen ill in 26 states. More illnesses are possible since people with listeriosis can take two months to show symptoms of the disease. The problematic cantaloupes were recalled by Jensen Farms in mid-September.